Hi all,
I'm trying to repair a Dell sx2210b LCD monitor. The backlight goes off instantly after turning power on. This monitor has an external power supply, I have replaced all caps in the inverter board, but that didn´t make any change.
In order to test the inverter board with a cfl lamp, I have soldered a couple of wires in each ccfl connector on the inverter board, and just before connecting the cfl lamp, I tested once again the monitor and I found that the backlight works while I keep the wires soldered in the second ccfl connector.
The wires are only soldered on the...

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Hello,
Just found this awesome forum searching for help with my dell sx2210 monitor.
My name is Luis and I'm from Portugal. I've been working in mobile telecommunications for 23 years. I have finished my professional training in electronics in 1992 and a specialization in industrial electronics in 1994. After that tons of training in tellecomunications.
By the way my first computer was a used labtop in 1991 running ms-dos only with a 386 processor and a mathematic co-processor. When I was a teenager, I was...